Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for the library they need. This can be quite a burden on various He? Why would I have to recompile a library's

Re: Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for the library they need. This can be quite a burden

Re: Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.08.2011 09:42, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for

Re: Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:11:33 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 15.08.2011 09:42, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then they

Re: Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.08.2011 11:59, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I could imagien as valid use caseto produce a (partly) statically built binary that works on a larger amount of distributions. But granted, we are now in the speculation area. Well, whatever, I am *not against* providing static libraries. I just

Re: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-14 Thread Andres Mejia
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 22:29, Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Am 11.08.2011 05:22, schrieb Andres Mejia: I have seen a commit

Re: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.08.2011 05:22, schrieb Andres Mejia: I have seen a commit with mp4v2 that disables building of the static library. Though I know binaries in Debian are normally linked with shared libraries, distributing the static library is beneficial to users with different requirements for software

Re: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-11 Thread Andres Mejia
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Am 11.08.2011 05:22, schrieb Andres Mejia: I have seen a commit with mp4v2 that disables building of the static library. Though I know binaries in Debian are normally linked with shared libraries, distributing the

Re: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 22:29, Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Am 11.08.2011 05:22, schrieb Andres Mejia: I have seen a commit with mp4v2 that disables building of the static library. Though I know binaries

Distributing static libraries

2011-08-10 Thread Andres Mejia
I have seen a commit with mp4v2 that disables building of the static library. Though I know binaries in Debian are normally linked with shared libraries, distributing the static library is beneficial to users with different requirements for software they distribute. I have heard of various use